Photos by Sal Gomez and story by Ryan Curtis

Approximately 75 dairy owners, managers and employees, as well as some feedlot managers and hospital crews, attended the Arizona Calf and Cattle College 301 event put on by Pfizer Animal Health. Fifty-five were Spanish-speaking managers and employees with approximately 20 English-speaking owners and managers.

Attendees took part in a group demonstration that illustrated how quickly pneumonia can spread and its effects on the health of the herd. Then classes split up and were taught the physiology of the calf and cow lung and how bacteria and disease, such as pneumonia and bovine respiratory disease, take effect. After that the class was taught how to best prevent and treat the diseases so they cause the least amount of harm to the herd. PD

Above: Dr. Isaias Delgado, with Pfizer Animal Health, during a wet lab showing Latino employees the anatomy of the bovine lung, how pneumonia progresses through the lung and what damage is left in its wake.

Above: Attendees stand for a group picture at the end of the course.